Mountainboard communities were truly aided by Internet Forums. As the web grew in the late ’90’s & noughties, but before the rise of full-scale social media, it was the forum’s job to connect riders from all over the World.

The big daddy for the UK scene from like 2000 – 2006 was ATBSports, then later came Surfing Dirt.

where r u now McCarver BGSurfer Etchy *WiL* etc etc

SD was a popular place, with international visitors chatting to each other about mountainboard-related biznezz: You’d pop by every day and know there would be some good conversation on board tech, a new video uploaded by a young crew, or maybe some trolling on a hot topic.

After several years though Riders had hopped on to Facecrack or were snorting some Twitter and as is common in mountainboarding, the SD team found life moving on.